SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Past Research Students

  • Daniel Atkins. Genetic Programming for Image Feature Construction. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2010 -- Feb 2011. (with Dr Kourosh Neshatian and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
  • Anna Friedlander. Genetic Programming for Feature Selection in Classification. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2010 -- Feb 2011. (with Prof Mengjie Zhang and Dr Kourosh Neshatian)
  • Rachel Hunt. Genetic Programming with Class Imbalance Problems. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2010 -- Feb 2011. (with Mark Johnston and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
  • Joel Miller. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2010 -- Feb 2011. (with Mark Johnston)
  • Aaron Scoble. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2010 -- Feb 2011. (with Mark Johnston)
  • Henry Williams. Learning Classifier Systems. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2010 -- Feb 2011. (with Dr Will Browne)

  • KouroshNeshatian, Feature Manipulation with Genetic Programming, PhD Thesis. 2010. Victoria PhD Scholarship. (with Mengjie Zhang and Peter Andreae)
  • Jason Xie. An Analysis of Tournament Selection in Genetic Programming. PhD Thesis. 2009. (with Mengjie Zhang and Peter Andreae)
  • Daniel Atkins. Evolutionary Art and Image Generation. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Mengjie Zhang and Will Browne)
  • Jan Larres. Genetic Programming for Evolving Loops and Recursive Structures for Classification. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Mengjie Zhang and Will Browne)
  • Lee Macri. PSO for Image Recognition. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Mengjie Zhang and Will Browne)
  • Thomas Liddle. Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation for Object detection. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Dr Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang)
  • Rachel Hunt. Genetic Programming with Class Imbalance Problems. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Dr Mark Johnston, Mengjie Zhang and Will Browne)
  • Chris Bruniges. Evolutionary Computing for Car Racing. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Will Browne and Mengjie Zhang)
  • Ben Haughey. Learning Classifier Systems. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Will Browne and Mengjie Zhang)
  • Carlton Downey. New Operators in Linear Genetic Programming for Multiclass Classification . BSc(Hon) Project. 2009. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Jason Xie. Investigation of Tournament Selection in Genetic Programming. Research Assistant. Oct 2008 -- Dec 2009. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Ammar Mohemmed. Particle Swarm Optimisation for (Image) Classification. Research Assistant/Fellow. Oct 2007 -- Feb 2009. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Roman Klapaukh. Evolutionary Art , Research Assistant. July -- October 2009. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Phillip Wong. Removing Redundancu and Reducing Fitness Evaluation Costs in Genetic Programming. Masters Thesis, 2008. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Hamish Evans. Particle Swarm Optimisation for Image Classification. BIT(Honours) Research Project. 2008. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Phillip Boyle. Gaussian Processes for Regression and Optimisation. PhD thesis, May 2007. (With Marcus Frean and Mengjie Zhang)
  • Barret Chin. Neural Networks and Genetic Programming for Fast Object Detection. BSc(Honours) Research Project. 2007. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Grant Patterson. Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data. Research assistant. Jan -- Jun 2007. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Phillip Wong. Simplification of Programs in Genetic Programming. Research Assistant, August 2006 -- Feb 2007. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Christopher Fogelberg. Linear Genetic Programming. Research Assistant, Oct 2005 -- June 2006. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Xiaoli Ma. Genetic Programming for Regression and Classification Tasks. Masters Thesis, 2007. (with Guifa Teng and Mengjie Zhang)
  • Xin Li. Weed Identification and Recognition in Wheat Field. Masters Thesis, 2007. (with Jinguo Zhang and Mengjie Zhang)
  • Daniel McGaughran. Genetic Programming: Evolving Simulated Human-Generated Programs with Loops and Control Structures in . BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2005. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Phillip Wong. Simplification of Genetic Programs during Evolution. BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2005. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Christopher Fogelberg. Linear Genetic Programming for Multi-class Classification Problems. BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2005. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Minh Duc Cao. Classication of Scientic Papers Using Machine Learning, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2005. (with Mengjie Zhang and Xiaoying Gao)
  • Weijun (Norman) Lou. Improving Crossover in Genetic Programming for Image Recognition, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2004-2005. (with Mengjie Zhang and Xiaoying Gao)
  • Will Smart. Genetic Programming for Object Recognition, Masters Thesis, 2005. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Jason Xie. Speech Analyser in an ICAI System for TESOL. Masters Thesis, 2004. (with Peter Andreae and Mengjie Zhang)
  • Yun Zhang. Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2004. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Malcolm Lett. Improving Training Performance of Genetic Programming for Object Detection, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2004. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Bunna NY. Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms for Object Classification and Detection, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2003. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • William Smart. Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object classification. BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2003. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Urvesh Bhowan. Fitness function with program size in genetic programming for multiclass object classification. BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2003. (with Mengjie Zhang)
  • Mark Pritchard, Genetic Programming for Object Detection, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2002. (with Mengjie Zhang and Peter Andreae)
  • Roy Chow. Multiple Class Object Detection Using Pixel Statistics in Neural Networks, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2002. (with Mengjie Zhang and Peter Andreae)